Astrophiz 28 - Fiona Panther 'Supernovae & Positrons'. Dr Ian Musgrave 'What's up Doc!'

Published: Feb. 23, 2017, 6:49 a.m.

b"Astrophiz 28 is out now on iTunes and Soundcloud.\\nOur feature interview is with Fiona Panther who is a PhD student and the Joan Duffield Scholar at the Australian National University's Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Canberra, Australia. Fiona is using computational astrophysics and working on using peculiar supernova to try and understand how positions are created in excess in our Galaxy. Fiona also explains Fermi Bubbles\\n\\nDr Ian Musgrave in our regular feature, \\u2018What\\u2019s up Doc?\\u2019 tells us what to look for in the night sky this week using naked eye, binoculars or telescopes, and all the action is currently down near the horizon.\\n\\nIn the news:\\nNASA, working with Spitzer, Hubble and the ESO\\u2019s VLT, have just announced that 7 exoplanets have been discovered in the habitable zone around TRAPPIST-1, a dwarf star only 39 light years away.\\nGalaxies being stripped of their star-forming matter"